Re: About SASL authentication in rcirc

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

"Alex McGrath" <amk@amk.ie> writes:

Hi Alex,

>> Oh, apparently I've looked at the wrong rcirc server buffer. On
>> libera.chat where I've tried authentication with SASL, I eventually
>> get the message
>> 
>> *** 904 SASL authentication failed
>> 
>> If you give me a pointer what needs to be debugger, I'll do so.
>
> I'm not sure why that would be, I tested with libera and it seemed to
> be working. It might be worth checking that
>
> ```
> (rcirc-get-server-password rcirc-server)
> ```
> In the AUTHENTICATE handler is correctly retrieving the password.

It is.  It concats \0, my nick (tsdh), \0, my nickserv password.  I
guess that is correct, right?

> Is there any sort of `SASL authentication aborted` message?

Oh, yes.  Right at the top of the *irc.libera.chat* buffer there is:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
07:03 -cadmium.libera.chat- *** Checking Ident
07:03 -cadmium.libera.chat- *** Looking up your hostname...
07:03 -cadmium.libera.chat- *** No Ident response
07:03 -cadmium.libera.chat- *** Found your hostname: j289989.servers.jiffybox.net
07:03 *** cadmium.libera.chat 906 SASL authentication aborted
07:03 *** cadmium.libera.chat 001 Welcome to the Libera.Chat Internet Relay
                                  Chat Network tsdh
07:03 *** 002 Your host is cadmium.libera.chat[103.196.36.38/6697], running
              version solanum-1.0-dev
07:03 *** 003 This server was created Mon Jun 14 2021 at 17:34:05 UTC
...
07:03 *** 904 SASL authentication failed
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Bye,
Tassilo